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150 pp.
| Farrar/Foster |
August, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-374-31786-0$$16.00
(2)
4-6
The summer he turns ten, Dillon Dillon receives a life-changing answer to his inquiry about his double-barreled name: his parents died in a plane crash when he was a toddler; the man he thinks is his father is his uncle. During his subsequent interactions with a loon family, he parses his muddled identity. This is an emotionally intricate and symbolically charged novel with an original and memorable protagonist.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2002